Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disunity fostered by the House system can be overcome while the merits of that system can be more fully developed if the organizations involved respect their independent roles. For, ultimately, the quality of undergraduate life depends on that mutual respect. Maxine S. Pfeffer...
Coglin, however, thrives on rivalry. "I swim on hate," he said, adding "You've got to beat the other guy or else you can't got to beat the other guy or else you can't face up to your own life...
Andrus told an audience of about 125 people at the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the life of a nation is similar to the life of a person. "In our youth we can be wasteful, but we have to correct our mistakes before it's too late," he said...
...experience with Diana Thomson's fiction class this fall stands above and beyond a whole multitude of highlights in what for me has been a very exciting and satisfying first year at Harvard. While immersing myself in extracurricular activities that included drama, work, and an active social life, I found little reason to give serious attention to my three other general education courses during the first half of the year. On the other hand, Mrs. Thomson made my first encounter with creative writing not only a learning experience, but also the only class in which I felt a real academic...
...view by labelling it emotional." I wonder at the horror this word arouses. Yes, confronting the reality of the human condition does involve emotion (some even go so far to claim that this is what humanizes us, offers us a vision of what's truly meaningful and purposeful in life). Of course, emotion produces negative results too--but what is the function of education if not to combine reason and insight and moral awareness in the proctorship of human affairs? Education teaches us to distinguish a reasoned argument of artifice and greed from one of true merit...